Group Media & Photos

Hawaii Softball Team. Missoula Internment Camp, 1943. 1st Row (L-R): Tomoichi Hayashi, Ryuichi Kashima, Kazumi Matsumoto, Shujiro Takakuwa. 2nd Row: Masayuki Iwata, Kumaji Furuya, Goki Tatsuguchi, Yoshinobu Sasaki, Masahiro Himeno. 3rd Row: Soichi Obata, Akio Kimura, Isaku Orita, Tamaki Arita, Masato Kiyosaki, Suijo Kabashima. JCCH/Soichi Obata Archival Collection.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1941

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

First Transfer Group (Missoula): February 1942

This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the U.S. Grant military transport ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp, with some paroled to War Relocation Authority camps to reunite with family or transferred for repatriation to Japan. This internee was in a sub-group of First Transfer Group internees who were sent from Livingston to Missoula before being transferred to Santa Fe.

Angel Island Detention Facility, California

March 1942

Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin

March 1942 - May 1942

Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee

May 1942 - June 1942

Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana

June 1942 - June 1943

Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana

June 1943 - April 1944

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

April 1944 - December 1944

Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas

Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.

Akio Robert Kimura returned to practicing medicine in Honolulu after the war. At the time of his death in 1952, he was chief of the medical staff at Kuakini Hospital.